Volume 51#08

July 30 – August 12, 2013

Collectors and dealers will soon be exploring the bustling bourse floor at the FUN Convention, where hundreds of booths offer coins, currency, and numismatic treasures from around the world. (FUN photo)

Secord coin makes trek into Canadian pockets

"Honouring the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 with this special circulation coin pays tribute to one of our greatest national heroes and reminds us that women and men of all backgrounds played instrumental roles on the road to Confederation,” said Nicholson. “Our government encourages Canadians to take this unprecedented opportunity to learn more about our heroes and history and to take pride in our traditions by collecting this new circulation coin dedicated to War of 1812 hero Laura Secord.” Continue reading →

Features

Guinea returns to gold origins on 350th anniversary

Page 23

Iceberg alley on 20 for 20

Page 23

Regulars

Focus on Maritimes

Page 24

Are you buying or selling?

Page 28

Check out the shows in your area

Page 31

Editorial

Demand, rarity do not always go hand in hand

One of the really difficult things for burgeoning collectors to grasp is the concept of how rarity affects the price of a coin. That is usually because they fail to look at demand. Take, for instance, errors. By definition most of the really spectacular errors are unique; freak coins produced when something went horribly wrong. They are often, when the nature of the error, year, and denomination are considered, literally one-of-a-kind coins.

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